Hangout
Narrative Eye have hosted Google Hangouts with authors and historians across the world to explore the many aspects of African history.
Watch the live broadcasts of our Hangouts on our YouTube channel Narrative Eye.
Our guests have included:
Historian and author Onyeka
Art historian and curator Dr. Adrienne Childs
Journalist and author S.I. Martin
IN SEARCH OF THE AFRICAN IN HISTORY
Sunday 3rd August 7pm-
with Onyeka and S.I. Martin
To watch this Hangout visit our YouTube Channel
Join historians Onyeka and S.I. Martin as they discuss the issues historians face in researching people of African descent in history.
S. I. Martin was born in Bedford and has worked as a journalist for The Voice and Bulletin. He is the author of a novel, Incomparable World (1996), which tells the story of three black exiles living in 18th-
S. I. Martin lives in South London where he works as a researcher and writer of Black history. In 2007 his children's novel, Jupiter Williams, was published. It tells the tale of a boy who lives in the African Academy in Clapham, London, in 1800. His latest book is Jupiter Amidships (2009).
IMAGINING RENAISSANCE EUROPE
Sunday 20th July 7pm-
with Onyeka and Dr. Adrienne Childs
To watch this Hangout visit our YouTube Channel
Onyeka is a writer, law lecturer and historian. His books document the lives and history of the African experience in Britain. His work explores issues about cultural identity, resistance to oppression and the will to succeed. Onyeka latest book is Blackamoores: Africans in Tudor England, their Presence, Status and Origin.
Adrienne L. Childs is an independent scholar, art historian and curator and an associate of the W.E.B Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. Her interests are in the relationship between race and representation in European and American art. She recently contributed an essay to Volume V of The Image of the Black in Western Art. She is co-